The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 17

It was some little time since anyone had presented himself to run the terrible risk involved in attempting to cure the princess, and a crowd soon gathered round the prince.

Who acts: life, little time, crowd · What happens: be, present, run, attempt, cure, gather · To what, where: little time, anyone, terrible risk, princess

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, little time, crowd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 presented	mark
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 presented	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 presented	aux
9	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 time	acl:relcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 presented	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 run	mark
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 presented	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 risk	det
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 risk	amod
15	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	obj
16	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 risk	amod
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 attempting	mark
18	attempting	attempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 involved	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cure	mark
20	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 attempting	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cure	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gathered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gathered	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 crowd	det
26	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gathered	nsubj
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 gathered	advmod
28	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	conj
29	round	round	ADP	_	31 prince	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prince	det
31	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gathered	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	life	some little time		tree rules
2	present	past · perfect · passive	some little time not said here	anyone		tree rules
3	run	to-infinitive	some little time not said here	the terrible risk		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory
4	attempt	gerund	some little time not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cure not said to happen	to-infinitive	some little time not said here	the princess		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer princess=Source
6	gather	past	a crowd		round the prince; soon property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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